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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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THE CIVIL WAR SOLDIER AS HE REALLY LOOKED AND MARCHED There is nothing to suggest military brilliancy about this squad. Attitudes are as prosaic as uniforms are unpicturesque. The onlyman standing with military correctness is the officer at the left-hand end. But this was the material out of which was developed thesoldier who could average sixteen miles a day for weeks on end, and do, on occasion, his thirty miles through Virginia mud and his fortymiles over a hard Pennsylvania highway. Sixteen miles a day does not seem far to a single pedestrian, but marching with a regimentbears but little relation to a solitary stroll along a sunny road. It is a far different matter to trudge along carrying a heavy burden,choked by the dust kicked up by hundreds of men tramping along in front, and sweltering in the sun—or trudge still more drearilyalong in a pelting rain which added pounds to a soaked and clinging uniform, and caused the soldiers to slip and stagger in the mud. ^l^_L3^JSflWBI j^^

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